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“The lawyers truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“To invent without scruple a new principle to every new phenomenon, instead of adapting it to the old; to overload our hypothesis with a variety of this kind, are certain proofs that none of these principles is the just one, and that we only desire, by a number of falsehoods, to cover our ignorance of the truth.”
—David Hume (17111776)
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